Federalists of Austria

The Federalists was a liberal faction of Austrian politics that existed from 1836 to 1918, when Austria-Hungary dissolved. The party was paradoxically more further-left than the Radicals of Austria, the socialist faction, as they advocated all of the same views, plus giving immigrants full citizenship rather than limited citizenship. The Federalists managed to become the second-largest party in the Austrian Empire by 1861, having the support of 15.1% of the population; they rivalled the larger conservative Bach's Faction for control of politics.